Path: Production > Production orders
A manufacturing order, or MO, represents the actual transformation of materials into a finished item, semi-finished item, or co-product.
It is usually created from a manufacturing request. The request defines the need. The MO defines execution.
Choose your working perspective
At the top, you can choose three ways to group information:
Orders
This is the default view. It shows each MO as a unit and lets you review its requester, item, quantity, and dates.
Sort and prioritize tasks
Use the table tools to review and prioritize orders:
- Sort by date: the Created, Required (date requested by the customer), and Target (internal delivery date) columns can be sorted from their headers. This lets you put urgent launches or critical deliveries first.
- Status filters: use Hide cancelled and Hide finished to focus on active orders and those pending manufacturing.
- Column searches: each column has a search field underneath. To see only orders for a particular customer, enter their name in Contains under Requester. To find a specific component, use Item code or Item.
Operations
This tab breaks manufacturing orders down into operations that employees and machines must execute.
Each row represents a specific operation.
Understand the order breakdown
The view shows each product’s routing:
- Operations appear in the order needed to complete work, from preparation to packaging.
- Each operation’s status indicates the MO’s point in the process.
Review workstations
The Workstation column indicates the physical place or machinery where the task runs (for example: Paint booth, Hydraulic press 1, or Packaging table 1).
- Filter this column by a machine, such as
Circular saw 1, to gather active operations assigned to it. This helps prepare jobs sharing the same setup.
Review quantities
Review these three columns to compare the target with progress and rejects:
- Planned Q (planned quantity): number of pieces that should enter this process stage.
- Completed Q (completed quantity): units completed in this operation. Their availability for the next operation depends on its predecessor conditions and released-quantity limits.
- Rejected Q (rejected quantity): units rejected during that operation.
Operation groups
Shows tasks grouped by lots or work families to review workload across areas.
Launch an order
The request records what you need to manufacture. The order defines how that work will run.
- Open Production > Production requests.
- Find a request that is neither assigned nor cancelled.
- Click Launch production order.
- Review the recipe, quantity, dates, and operations before confirming.
If a request is already assigned, open the related MO instead of creating another.
Block or unblock an order
Open an MO and click Block to temporarily remove it from pending work while reviewing materials, dates, or instructions. Click Unblock once it is ready to execute again.
Blocking does not cancel the MO or delete its history. Use Cancel when the work should no longer run.
Delete or cancel orders
Delete: deletes the order directly if it has no recorded activity. The order is removed from the database as if it never existed. Its number, history, and associated information are lost.
Cancel: if the order already has inventory movements, time records, or associated material purchases, the system only allows cancellation. Deleting it would create accounting discrepancies and inventory inconsistencies. 
